SEC Chair Gary Gensler is caught in a balancing act over what to do about one of the most aggressive pieces of the agency’s landmark climate disclosure rule.
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There is another Chinese surveillance balloon transiting Latin America right now, says in a new statement.
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NEW: Spy balloons have been around since the late 1700s, but why are militaries around the world still flying them in 2023? My latest for .
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Confirming Bloomberg, Meta & Within beat FTC bid to block their deal, but they have to wait another week while the FTC decides whether to appeal. The agency also has to decide whether to continue its in-house admin case which goes to trial Feb 13
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Confirming Bloomberg, Meta & Within beat FTC bid to block their deal, but they have to wait another week while the FTC decides whether to appeal. The agency also has to decide whether to continue its in-house admin case which goes to trial Feb 13
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Is anyone aware of any consumer protection agency (here or abroad) with oversight over tech companies which has a full-time psychologist on staff -- not just part-time or as an external contractor?
I am not aware of any, but would love to know if I've missed something.
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DOJ: baseball exemption is "of dubious validity"
ATR urges the 2nd Circuit not to extend MLB's antitrust exemption as 3 former minor league teams seek to have SCOTUS' century-old precedent overturned.
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dont get mad at me for jinxing bc thats not a real thing but when tf is the ruling in the ftc/meta/within case actually going to come
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"I am disappointed but not surprised," Buck said in a brief interview on Friday. "I was swimming against the tide and this is one way to change my direction," he said, referring to his support for antitrust legislation targeting the tech sector.
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Good read in light of yesterday's DOJ/Google news via
"One of the most ambitious planks of Biden’s agenda is his reinvigoration of Washington’s century-old antitrust power, a potent tool for the government to rein in the largest companies"
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DOJ's new Google case has been assigned to Judge Leonie Brinkema.
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Good morning! Bad news: after receiving threats from State Bar prosecutors, it seems likely they will put me in jail for 6 months if I follow through with bringing a robot lawyer into a physical courtroom. DoNotPay is postponing our court case and sticking to consumer rights:
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Then 1.5 years late DOJ rescinded the deal & reissued a pair of subpoenas, & reopening the probe. NAR sued to block that and over a year later, it won. The judge didnt say the DOJ could never investigate NAR again, it just couldnt reopen this same probe.
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Recall that in Nov 2019 the DOJ and NAR settled allegations that NAR's restrictions on home buyers learning about buy-side commissions were anticompetitive
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New: DOJ loses bid to reopen its antitrust probe of the National Association of Realtors a year after it settled the case and closed the investigation, with a federal judge throwing out a pair of subpoenas the DOJ sent to NAR.
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it’s antitrust tuesday here at politico nightly… I chatted with about the doj google lawsuit and about their day in Congress/Live Nation:
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If there is one immediate winner in the DOJ's newest case against Google I gotta say its Ticketmaster
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An antitrust lawsuit is good, but will take a long time and apply to only one company. We need to make sure competition works for everyone, and soon. I will be reintroducing the Competition and Transparency in Digital Advertising Act.
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DOJ v Google lawsuit over adtech market is coming momentarily. No complaint yet but docket is up. States including CA, NY, VA, CO join DOJ case in eastern district of virginia
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here's the google ad tech complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco
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DOJ v Google lawsuit over adtech market is coming momentarily. No complaint yet but docket is up. States including CA, NY, VA, CO join DOJ case in eastern district of virginia
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DOJ v Google lawsuit over adtech market is coming momentarily. No complaint yet but docket is up. States including CA, NY, VA, CO join DOJ case in eastern district of virginia
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Ticketmaster points to cyberattack as reason for Taylor Swift debacle, but with an ongoing DOJ antitrust probe, that is unlikely to take the heat off the company at a Senate Judiciary antitrust hearing tomorrow.
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Hey turns out it’s possible to have a conference panel that’s not all old white dudes
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good rundown of where ATR stands about a year in
credit to Josh for this correct read on what's going on in the defense bar - bluffing that strong enforcement will somehow lead to a wave of mergers
corps are often risk averse when it comes to long-term litigation
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New: I spoke to @JusticeATR's Jonathan Kanter and others in and out of DOJ taking stock of his first year and what's next. TLDR: big swings, hits, misses, a home run, much more on deck 
but w huge resource constraints and an overly stretched staff
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but w huge resource constraints and an overly stretched staff
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Very good profile of DOJ's Kanter.
The bull case for Kanter:
- His full team wasn't in place until last summer
- Won books merger challenge last year
- His stance is deterring deals
- Has done a much better job on staff morale than Khan
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Here's my dispatch from a Third Circuit courtroom in Philadelphia, where a panel of judges lobbed increasingly skeptical questions at DOJ's argument that a lower court erred in allowing US Sugar to close its acquisition of Imperial Sugar.
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In just over a year in office, Jonathan Kanter — one of the two most important players in Joe Biden’s efforts to rein in corporate power — has come after America’s biggest companies with force.
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New: SEC Chair Gary Gensler is escalating the Wall Street regulator's crypto crackdown with a stark warning to rule-breaking middlemen to fall in line — and fast.
“There’s so much non-compliance in this field. It’s part of the business model.”
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New: I spoke to 's Jonathan Kanter and others in and out of DOJ taking stock of his first year and what's next. TLDR: big swings, hits, misses, a home run, much more on deck ⚾️ but w huge resource constraints and an overly stretched staff
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Inbox: Klobuchar, Lee set Jan. 24 for Senate Judiciary Ticketmaster antitrust hearing
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I just learned there is an antitrust exemption for the matching system used to place med school grads in hospital residency programs.
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Jonathan Kanter's clearance to work on Google matters at the DOJ antitrust division potentially paves the way for a lawsuit targeting the company's ad tech business in a matter of weeks
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Late last year Sens. Mike Lee and Amy Klobuchar asked the FTC to investigate potential antitrust violations at real estate data company CoStar, according to a previously unreported letter to FTC Chair Lina Khan.
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The lawyer for a top union has spent months arguing that the $5.4 billion purchase of broadcaster Tegna by hedge fund Standard General will corrode democracy.
Meanwhile, he is on the payroll of three companies would benefit financially if the deal dies.
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Some personal news. I have loved every minute of working for , , and our talented Members on , and am immensely grateful to have worked with such dedicated and inspiring colleagues over the past decade. Onward.
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Scoop: The top House antitrust staffer @SladeBond left the House Judiciary Committee last week for the job of deputy assistant attorney general for domestic policy at Justice Department's office of legislative affairs - reposting without the cms link
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1. Hello. For years, the tabletop role playing game Dungeons & Dragons has become massively popular, largely because of fans developing their own content, characters and storylines. But now, monopoly power is coming to crush these user-created worlds - and its rivals.
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